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Re: survival skills for teenage geeks



On Thu, 2003-01-23 at 13:00, Vikki Roemer wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 07:59:07PM -0800, Alexander Hvostov wrote:
> > On Wed, 2003-01-22 at 01:17, John Holroyd wrote:
> > > Form yourself a LUG and teach these lost souls the truth of St. Ignucius
> > > Bible and the Glory of Emacs. ;)
> > 
> > Why isn't there a religion of nano? I want to worship nano, dammit!!
> 
> Yeah!  Nano and XEmacs forever! :)
> 
> Nano is great on the console, and XEmacs is the best editor (IMHO) for
> X (and for programming). OTOH, vi serves no good purpose
> anywhere. IMHO. *grin* 

I like gedit for quick edit jobs in X (along the lines of jove or nano
on the console), and jEdit for longer, more involved editing (most
notably, programming bigger than quick hacks).

I used to use XEmacs. I like jEdit because it's a lot like XEmacs (and,
to a lesser degree, GNU Emacs), but it was designed for the GUI from the
ground up, and it shows. For example, it's much easier to customize with
a graphical configuration window that neatly organizes various settings.
Anything that isn't covered there can still be customized by writing a
script or hacking the source, as with Emacs. Thus you get the best of
both worlds.

Alex.

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